Describe the performance contexts of gamelan music and give three examples

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• Javanese music is more closely related to other aspects of life than music in the "concert-music-culture" of the West (see Chapter 3). ". . . presentations of the more traditional gamelan music are best understood as social events that involve gamelan music."
• as entertainment and for ritual purposes at important life events (weddings, births, and so on)
• to accompany dance or theater, for example, accompanying shadow puppet theater (wayang kulit—see Fig 7-7, WOM p. 323)

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